Migration

16 / 01 / 2025

Invisible Walls: How AI Tech at Europe’s Borders Threatens People Seeking Refuge

With EU funding, more and more countries are using artificial intelligence (AI) systems, drones, and surveillance towers at their borders, and gaining access to the personal data of people seeking refuge in Europe.

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10 / 01 / 2025

Egypt: The EU’s unexpected ally against migration

From 2024 to 2027, Egypt is slated to receive more EU aid than any other country, under a migration agreement which aims to prevent the arrival of refugees and migrants into the European Union.

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10 / 12 / 2024

Abu Sultan’s Enterprise: The Smuggling Ring Behind the Pylos Shipwreck

The second part of the joint investigation by Solomon, ARIJ, El País, TAZ, and The New Humanitarian provides, in unprecedented detail, an account of the structure and operation of the north African smuggling ring behind the Pylos shipwreck.

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04 / 12 / 2024

Pylos Shipwreck: Greece knew the real smugglers 

Solomon's investigation–conducted in collaboration with El País, Die Tageszeitung, ARIJ, and The New Humanitarian–reveals that Egypt informed the Greek authorities that the nine survivors of the Pylos shipwreck were not members of the smuggling network. Yet, the men stayed behind bars for a year.

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21 / 05 / 2024

Testimony of Hellenic Coast Guard captain exonerates the “Pylos nine”

Nine Egyptian nationals, survivors of the deadly Pylos shipwreck, accused of smuggling and causing the vessel to sink, were found not guilty. Below is the statement given by the captain of PPLS-920, the only Coast Guard vessel present during the sinking of the Adriana in June 2023.

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10 / 04 / 2024

How European countries wrongfully classify children seeking asylum as adults

Thousands of children seeking protection in Greece, Italy, and the UK have likely been registered as adults – a failure with serious consequences.

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03 / 04 / 2024

Heavy fine for the Ministry of Migration’s surveillance systems

The Hellenic Data Protection Authority issued the Ministry a €175,000 fine in regards to their digital management systems “Centaur” and “Hyperion”. Solomon had previously revealed that the Ministry’s two flagship programs were designed and implemented without the required data privacy protections.

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27 / 03 / 2024

Lost for Words: Lack of interpreters puts asylum seekers’ lives on hold in Greece

In detention-like facilities, asylum seekers have to wait for sometimes over a year for their asylum interviews due to lack of interpreters. And when the interviews take place, they sometimes blame interpreters’ mistakes for their rejections.

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26 / 02 / 2024

“An Open Secret”: How Frontex and the European Commission turned a blind eye to violent pushbacks in Bulgaria’s bid to join Schengen 

Internal documents obtained by Solomon, BIRN, Le Monde and Deutsche Welle reveal aggressive pushbacks, "disappearances" of unaccompanied children, and attacks by guard dogs at the Bulgarian border. The EU is well aware but considers the "excellent results" in Bulgaria’s border management.

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